Kardinal Offishall - Powerfull lyrics

[Kardinal Offishall] Yo, yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yo, yeoooow! Yeah huh Wake up! Are we awake, are we wake, are we wake Take it low, low low low low Take it low take it low, take it low Yo! I said yo, I said yo, I said yo Yeah Kardinal is walkin' (yo) just how we be talking (Yo) Fakes get they face palmed, and thrown to the floor Shout out to the ghetto, girl's in they stilettos With their tongue rings, doing tricks, sippn' on Ameretto Fire pon a fosse-man a bad man truss me Not a h*mophobic, just a man who loves pssss Come here let me see you, and throw a little game You can either fall in love with the hood or with the name Explicit lyriciasm (yo) nuff narcissism Is invading hip-hop, replacing escapism My vision is an ism (yo) smoke it till you're high Unattainable goals blank to your third eye (yo) Maneuvering high skies to low tone flows Straight to the five mic sight is where the flow goes k**ing 'em with knowledge - the mind is the key Just sign on the dotted line and check who you be [CHORUS: Jully Black (Kardinal)] You (you), me (me), powerful (so powerful) We're fighting for this goal and we ain't gonna stop (We ain't never gonna stop y'all) I said you {you}, me (me), is wonderful {so wonderful) We'll be makin' babies til our army's on top ('Til we standing on the top y'all) [Kardinal Offishall] The funk is in the air (yo) you might suffocate If you don't strap on your mack on and watch I articulate We don't shake hands with cops (yo) we don't participate Light up an informer and make his mouth menstrate (yo) Black is for Black, they can't understand that So they call it "reverse racism" and try to pin it back (yo) But if we ain't for us, who for us? them? - nah! If it was up to them they would have us ridin' in the back of the bus In handcuffs and other shackles (yo) check Mr. Bush Plant c**aine on me and call it operation push Our Prime Minister is actually second in command Bending over to the star spangled-politically strangled So we have to move (yo) through the underground Encode the funk mode and claim back the sound (yo) 'Cause what's mine is gonna stay mine, word to line for line Off the top and all that Peace to magnificent rap [CHORUS] [Tara Chase] Look out Cameras are watching you, they watching you from birth And they be k**ing us softly by biologically attacking us first Don't think that you're immune 'Cause your acquired system is soon to be consumed Flesh eating disorder, false claims of water I rip through the lies so I can bare sons and daughters, and soldiers Build my camp up like an army over Giza, running suicide missions You can't disarm me [CHORUS: no Kardinal] [Jully Black ad-libs] [Jully Black] Making babies 'til our army's on top yeah, yeah Oh yeah [Kardinal Offishall] Wake up! Take it low, low low low low low [OUTRO: Kardinal Offishall] Dear Lord, I really, I don't even know how to ax this You know, I can't, this this this is not an act I must, from the bottom of my heart, ask forgiveness for my sins But you know what I ask that you give me the strength to be able to reach all of those peoples, on every street corner, every block, every ghetto All of those people, that we sometimes think are not worthy of blessings, they're worthy to me And I think that as a man given the blessings you have given me The opportunity to speak, that I need to speak the language of those people, and I need to reach them You know, beacuse there's are a lot of good people on this Earth, but there still some people that need a talking to And I ask you to give me the strength to reach out to those people You know because I believe everybody is worthy of your blessings So I ask that you give, you give me, my family, my crew, F.O.S, the circle All of us, all the babies that are being born You give us the strength to be able to deal with it how you see fit Beacuse you give all of us the power, as much as some people might not believe it You give us the strength to reach out and touch a lot people So Lord I ask you give me the strength to go out in the world and start the fire You know, start your fire, you understand I'm saying Lord, just please be with me, be with me and give me the strength and let me do this Come to you as humble man, Kardinal Offishall Quest For Fire